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Other additions worthy of note are the white-necked stork 
(Ciconia nigra) ; a very fine example of the black-necked stork 
(Xenorhynchus asiaticus) ; the black spur-winged goose (Plec- 
tropterus niger) ; the milky eagle-owl (Bubo lacteus) and the 
eared vulture (Otogyps auricularis), a large and powerful bird 
of rather gruesome appearance. 
A fine series of Cuban birds has been accumulated. It in- 
cludes the Cuban flicker (Colaptes chrysocaulosus) ; eye-browed 
woodpecker (Centurus superciliaris) ; Cuban green woodpecker 
(Xiphidiopicus percussus) ; Cuban banded woodpecker (Neso- 
celeus fernandinae); Cuban cuckoo (Saurotheria merlini) ; 
D’Orbigny blackbird (Ptiloxena atrovolacea) and the Lawrence 
owl (Gymnasio lawrence). 
The Curator returned from his seventeen months’ quest for 
pheasants on May 27, 1911, successfully completing the first 
round-the-world scientific expedition which the Society has 
undertaken.* The five earlier ornithological expeditions of the 
Curator, respectively to Cobb Island, Florida, Mexico, Venezuela 
and British Guiana were all made at his own expense. This 
Pheasant Expedition was made at the suggestion and by the 
financial aid of Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, and the monograph 
now under way will be published within two years under the 
auspices of the Zoological Society. 
Since the Curator’s return, his scientific observations and 
experiments upon the bird collections have again been taken 
in hand. On December 5, 1911, Zoologica No. 7 was published 
under the title of The Undescribed Juvenal Plumage of the 
Yucatan Jay. Other numbers are in course of preparation. 
Zoologica Number 2, “The Ecology of the Hoatzin,”’ has been 
reprinted entire in the Smithsonian Report for 1910, and the 
Bulletin article on the Sonneberg Aviaries has been reprinted 
in Bird Notes for December. 
Important new installations, which now are in actual process 
of completion, are the Eagle and Vulture Aviary, the Tropical 
Eagle and Owl House and Hospital, and a series of breeding 
cages for rare birds. These will all be completed early during 
the coming year. | 
*For a preliminary account of the Expedition, see Zoological Society Bulletin 
No. 46. 
